Making a felted flower with Peter.

wooly ‘wednesday’ every day

Lately, every day is a wooly day! Wooly good renewable resource!!

bartered wool

I spent the earlier part of the week home alone minding the farm. I have one doe that I’m keeping a keen eye on for ‘signs of heat’ so that I may arrange for her breeding (a most anxious time – for me!).

I do enjoy being ‘home alone’ since I usually immerse myself in fiber-y projects without the disruption of ‘wifely’ duties.

A couple of years ago (or more), I bartered my farm-raised organic lavender buds for a ‘sampler’ of Border Leicester raw wool locks. In an effort to deplete my wool stash, I used them (with my Shetland roving for the base/underlayment) to create/wet felt a woolly chair pad.

I love the natural variegated color and texture!

Happy fiber’n!

Walking the wool.

wooly wednesday: my muse (of late)

I’m in love with… Morse Felt Studio

Aim for the moon…

Aim for the moon; even if you miss you’ll land among the stars!

Hand felted sheep’s wool & mohair blend // needle felted Lincoln wool locks/staple. A fun project: seat cushion/chair pad.

Sheep Brooch

Did we already ‘talk’ about these sheepy brooches? They’re very similar  to the woolly sheep doilies (w/o the lace doily sandwiched between the wool layers). Read that post here.

 

All I did was wet felt a handful of wool roving and wool locks/staples (for additional texture). The majority of work was spent making the little oven-fired clay faces!

… painted black and stitched them into place on the felt.

 

Add a bar pin back or a piece of thread for an Easter tree decorated with sheepy ornaments?!

 

Reversible: twice the goodness?

I played a bit more with my Shetland wool roving (that’s surprising, wink!). I used two individual girls’ wool: Brenna’s ‘black’ and Reese’s moorit.

First, two layers or more of one sheep and then another two or three layers of the other sheep’s naturally colored wool.

See, reversible! Twice the goodness!???

The slight difference in each fleece influenced the wet felting process and final character of the project. I added Lincoln ‘fringe’ to both ‘ends’.

Always fun to explore (play) with wool!

therapy

Wet felting (playing with wool) is my go-to THERAPY.

Is that a sheep in the bath tub??? Why YES, it is! (Ugh! Laying over the tub is difficult on the chest!)

My apprentice, Luna, inspecting my ‘work’? I don’t know if she loves the wool or WATER more???!? Rub-a-dub-dub, kitty in the tub!

The ‘finished’ wooly product: my Shetland wool with my friend Chris’s Lincoln raw wool staples as fringe. I haven’t decided whether to needle felt a few sheep on it… or not? Hmmmm…

Cheap therapy for the heart and soul!!